The Spider's Web

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Spider's Web
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Joseph Roth
Translated by John Hoare
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 129
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781862076761
ClassificationsDewey:833.912
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Granta Books
Imprint Granta Books
Publication Date 30 November 2004
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In The Spider's Web, his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism.

Author Biography

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the greatest elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist. On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany and he died in poverty in Paris. His novels include What I Saw, The Legend of the Holy Drinker, Right and Left, The Emperor's Tomb, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta.